Well known to readers of the French press, the designer Savoyard Georges Million is on all fronts.With a collection of drawings which has just been released in bookstores, but also on the other side of the Alps where he signs the front page of a humorous newspaper.
""""""""""""""""I still remember the time when Dino came to pick me up at Turin station with the gang of Italian caricaturist friends"""""""""""""""", likes to remember the designer Albertvillois Georges Million.""""""""""""""""We heard 'Ciao Millione, Ciao Millione' everywhere!""""""""""""""""
Dino Aloi is the co-founder of the Italian humorous review """"""""""""""""Buduàr"""""""""""""""" for which Million has just signed a collaboration.But it is above all a longtime friend.""""""""""""""""We have so many beautiful memories together,"""""""""""""""" he smiles.
Million in Prima Pagina
After having seen it in September in Saint-Just-le-Martel (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), during the International Press and Humor Drawing Fair, his """"""""""""""""Great Amico"""""""""""""""" Dino Aloi asks Georges Million to doThe front page of the December issue of his """"""""""""""""Buduàr"""""""""""""""".Million does not see any complaints.
""""""""""""""""I don't even know how many Dino drawings took me in his newspaper.For friends like him, there are no limits.I said to him: Take what you want, """"""""""""""""he says.For his first one of Buduàr, Million still had to agree to draw his characters on a sofa, a symbol of the periodical.
""""""""""""""""Buduàr, this is a word that does not exist in Italian, explains its Piedmontese dino Aloi.When with Alessandro Prevosto and Marco de Angelis (the most read Italian press designer in the world having collaborated with the New York Times, Le Monde, Panorama or the Washington Post, editor's note), we created """"""""""""""""Buduàr"""""""""""""""" in 2012,We wanted to call it 'the Humor Salon'.And then, one of us found that it sounded badly.And we thought of the famous philosophy in the Boudoir du Marquis de Sade.So, we have italianized your word """"""""""""""""boudoir"""""""""""""""" to make it our instrument of initiation to humor.""""""""""""""""
""""""""""""""""In addition, continues the designer and big collector of press cartoons, this title also allowed us to pay tribute to France and its caricaturists.Because, at home, since the 19th century, it is a real specialty.With institutions like 'Le Charivari', 'L'Assiette au butter' or more recently 'Harakiri' or 'Charlie Hebdo' """""""""""""""".
A profession of protest
""""""""""""""""Charlie, me, it's not too much my thing, admits for his part the French friend.But protesting, yes, yes.It's a bit like the profession of caricaturist.""""""""""""""""
A duty of insolence, in a way, which guided the footsteps of this former specialized educator for mental disabled children. """"""""""""""""J'ai commencé à dessiner des vignettes pour la MJC d'Albertville.A little critical thumbnails, to laugh.And then, I met Plantu """""""""""""""".And to borrow a few things like some gimmicks: flies around Balladur or little mouse for Plantu.
""""""""""""""""For me, during the period of preparation of the Albertville Olympics, it was the small concrete spinning truck of which I systematically affect, in my drawings, Jean-Albert Corrand (the boss of the organizing committee of the Olympic Games,Editor's note).One day, I meet him in a street in Albertville.I said to myself: what am I going to take ... finally, no, remembers the Savoyard designer.He just told me that he was tired of always being represented in a gnome and with a concreteur of public works business.""""""""""""""""
Will follow, for a million, multiple and above all varied collaborations.For the Dauphiné Libéré, Christian testimony, Les Echos, Savoie-Consumption-Que Choisir ... and, icing on the cake, the Council of Europe which asks him for several of his drawings to illustrate publications on the former USSR and theWar in ex-Yugoslavia.Then textbooks of textbooks bring some of his drawings into history books of the 3rd grade. """"""""""""""""Une vraie fierté"""""""""""""""", avoue Million.
Un dessinateur qui a fait sa """"""""""""""""Traces""""""""""""""""
This is how the Savoyard designer made his mark. Ou plutôt ses """"""""""""""""Traces"""""""""""""""", du nom de son dernier recueil de dessins.Sixty-four boards dedicated to winter and snow, which falls rather well at the time of the holidays.
""""""""""""""""Between designers, we are used to sending out small funny drawings to wish each other happy holidays, he explains.This time, I made a book.""""""""""""""""
On the other side of the border, in his native turin, his friend Dino also prepares his greeting cards. """"""""""""""""Mais avant cela, il faut boucler ce numéro de décembre de 'Buduar'"""""""""""""""", nuance-t-il.Five thousand readers await it online. """"""""""""""""Des Français en premier, ce sont nos plus gros lecteurs. Puis des Italiens, mais aussi des Iraniens, des Turcs… On est lus dans une bonne trentaine de pays, tout de même"""""""""""""""", se félicite le dessinateur humoristique turinois.
No need to know how to speak the language of your readers when you are a designer. Car s'il est bien un point sur lequel les deux caricaturistes """"""""""""""""contestataires"""""""""""""""" s'accordent, c'est pour dire que l'humour sauvera les fêtes.And beyond, the world.
